Tony Stohne wrote:
> hehe, there are some experienced guys (& gals?) on the list.
> I'm 44...
I'm also 44, have been using Unix since 1981 and still have my hardback
book on the PDP 11/70 and my K&R C book from then. I remember being
told not to run 'vi' when too many people were on because it wo
Dan Farrell wrote:
>
> ...White
> terminal backgrounds, aside from the invisible color problem, also are
> hella ugly.
When I look between reading printed papers or journals and the computer
screen I like windows with white background (actually a little
off-white) & black text. That way I can
Matt,
Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> ...I want to change the openoffice splash screen. I know I have to
> overwrite the intro.bmp with the new one, but I can't find it...
Here you go:
kryten mm $ find /usr/lib/openoffice/ -name intro.bmp -print
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/intro.bmp
Mike
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I just got Verizon's fios and love the high bandwidth. But I can't get
my gentoo laptop fully connected through a wireless connection. Has
anyone been through this already? Here are the highlights:
- I'm using a Verizon supplied an Actiontec router which includes
wireless and seems to be a
I have a ~x86 box that is dial up only and uses ppp. Last weekend an
'emerge -uD world' seemed to complete without issue but now I can't make
a ppp connection as seen by the error attached below. I admit to not
knowing my way around udev yet & what I've read isn't helping with this.
I'm gues
Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
Am Freitag, 10. November 2006 14:01 schrieb Mike Markowski:
Anyone else have ppracer stop working after installing the latest (9629)
Nvidia driver?
9629 segfaults, when screen resolution is changed by XFree86-VidModeExtension.
Most games use this method. After
Anyone else have ppracer stop working after installing the latest (9629)
Nvidia driver? I haven't been able to find errors logged anywhere yet.
X server just blinks 3 times followed by the Nvidia splash screen and
then the xdm login widget.
I'm using unstable x86 and xscreensaver opengl save
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 20:09 -0400, Mike Markowski wrote:
>>echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>>
>> What more needs doing?
>
> Search through either gentoo-wiki or gentoo.org. IIRC there are step by
> step instructions on d
Can anyone point me to a howto or advice for the following?
On my gentoo box I have:
- ppp dialup link to the internet (rural living is not very
broadband friendly yet)
- wireless access point on the ethernet interface
I'd like to use this box as a router so that any wireless traffic
Richard Fish wrote:
> On 6/21/06, Mike Markowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, Norberto. Looks like the (or, a) problem is initctl. The named
>> pipe is missing...or is it supposed to be created during boot? I got
>
> No, /dev/initctl is a
Norberto Bensa wrote:
> Mike Markowski wrote:
>> Any ideas? "Bueller? Bueller?"
>
> Please post:
>
> $ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
> $ ls -l /boot
> $ sudo fdisk -l
> $ ls -l /dev/console
> $ ls -l /dev/initctl
> $ ls -l /dev/null
Ok, Norberto. L
I forgot to write it down). But since I only hosed
/boot and then reinstalled grub and kernel, I'm not sure why I'm not in
business yet.
Any ideas? "Bueller? Bueller?"
Thanks,
Frustrated in Pennsylvania (aka Mike)
Mike Markowski wrote:
> Well, when I do it, I do it right.
Well, when I do it, I do it right. Through a bad combination of typos
and missing an I deleted everything in /boot. :-(
This is what I did to (try to) recover:
# cd /boot
# mklost+found
# emerge grub
[...edited grub.conf...]
[...recompiled kernel & modules and installed...]
I *thoug
Bill,
William Kenworthy wrote:
I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card.
Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-r3) drivers or the builds in
portage? Is the a configuration guide for this setup on gentoo?
You want the portage builds. I'm going by memory (laptop is a
Eugene Rosenzweig wrote:
2005/12/24, Mike Markowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[...] I tried an "emerge -uD world" but get:
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies |
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-java/sun-
;t sun-jdk satisfies this dependency?
2005/12/24, Mike Markowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I just accidentally zapped all my incoming gentoo-user emails, so
apologies if this is a duplicate question... After a successful "emerge
sync" I tried an "emerge -uD world" but get:
I just accidentally zapped all my incoming gentoo-user emails, so
apologies if this is a duplicate question... After a successful "emerge
sync" I tried an "emerge -uD world" but get:
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies |
emerge: there are
I'll be changing jobs Monday and want to be sure I bring along enough to
easily rebuild the sort of gentoo set up I currently enjoy.
After installing, will it be enough to use my current
/var/lib/portage/world and /etc/make.conf followed by 'emerge -uDf
world', etc., to get me going? Or am I over
Bruno Lustosa wrote on 04/25/05 12:40 ET:
> Hello.
> After some update, the GLX extensions stopped working.
> I noticed it because opengl xscreensavers would just segfault. After I
> quit X and tried to restart it, I would get a segfault when trying to
> load the glx extension. [...]
I noticed thi
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